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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">From the AOSP landscape study, it was clear that open access institutional repositories are well established (<a href="http://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/view/repository_by_country/002.html">179
African repositories registered on OpenDOAR</a>) on the African continent. The majority of the repositories use
<a href="https://duraspace.org/dspace/">DSpace</a> open source software, and great capacity exists among African system administrators and librarians. Alternative options to data repository software include:
<a href="https://invenio-software.org/">Invenio 3</a> (open source for large scale repositories, highly scalable up to 100+ million records and petabytes of file) and
<a href="https://dataverse.org/">Dataverse</a> (open source research data repository with many features – see
<a href="https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v4.10">https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v4.10</a> ), as well as the technology options mentioned by the
<a href="http://opendatatoolkit.worldbank.org/en/technology.html">World Bank Toolkit</a> (a great resource to guide you in terms of setting up your data repository service). Ideally a data repository should form part of a
<a href="https://sciencegateways.org/new-to-gateways">science gateway</a>, including
<span style="background:white">shared equipment and instruments, computational services, advanced software applications, collaboration capabilities, data repositories, and networks.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">For those interested in looking at DSpace as an option: the following information on how DSpace can serve as a data repository was recently shared via
the DSpace mailing list (<a href="mailto:bram@atmire.com">Bram Luyten</a>):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Examples of DSpace used as data repositories<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">University of Exeter
<a href="https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/14881">https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/14881</a> (single item, multiple TBs of data)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">University of Nottingham Research Data Management Repository
<a href="https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/">https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/</a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;background:white">Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich)
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#0070C0;background:white"><a href="https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/"><span style="color:#0070C0">https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/</span></a>
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">University of Cambridge
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/browse?type=type&value=Dataset">https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/browse?type=type&value=Dataset</a>
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">DRYAD</span> <a href="https://datadryad.org/">https://datadryad.org/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Indiana University
<a href="https://dataworks.iupui.edu/">https://dataworks.iupui.edu/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Smithsonian Libraries
<a href="https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27850">https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27850</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Strengths of DSpace as a data repository</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">- File type agnostic. You're not limited any specific file type or particular size.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">- No theoretical file size limit. Even though there might be limits in other places (OS, underlying software), DSpace itself has no known limit of data
size.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">- Flexible metadata schemas, allowing you to align with DataCite and other metadata schema's.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">- DOI integration with DataCite (connected with DataCite for automatic DOI minting).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">- Different workflows and rules are possible on a per collection basis, giving an excellent starting point for a mixed Publication/Data set repository.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">- Advancing URLs, e.g. where a researcher wants a permanent URL for their data set, so they can send it to publishers, but they would also like to refer
to the permanent URL of the published paper in the dataset submission. DSpace-CRIS can generate the links to the datasets while submitting the publication, and DSpace-CRIS generates the reciprocal link (from the dataset to the publication) automatically, without
the need for repository administrator to reopen the dataset items and manually add the link to the publication. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">DSpace-CRIS consists of a data model describing objects of interest to Research and Development and a set of tools to manage
the data. Standard DSpace is used to deal with publications and data sets, whereas DSpace-CRIS involves other CRIS entities: Researcher Pages, Projects, Organization Units and Second Level Dynamic Objects (single entities specialized by a profile, such as
Journal, Prize, Event etc; because any profile can define its own set of properties and nested objects). For more info, see:
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://dspace-cris.4science.it/handle/123456789/15">https://dspace-cris.4science.it/handle/123456789/15</a></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Project Manager:
<a href="http://africanopenscience.org.za/">African Open Science Platform</a> <br>
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)<br>
<a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2016/09/07/the-doaj-ambassadors-biographies/">DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region</a><br>
<a href="https://loy2016blog.wordpress.com/">LIASA Librarian of the Year 2016</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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